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President Obama today announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative and an anticipated $100M of US government funding in the next fiscal year. That is part of several hundred million more committed by private partners and foundations to this project to better understand how the brain works.http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/

NIH Director Francis Collins discussing the BRAIN initiative

NIH Director Francis Collins – “It aims to bring together nanoscience, engineering, and neurology to make sense of how the brain works—how those circuits in the brain allow us to do all the complicated things that we currently don’t understand.”